Welcome from the WWW2003 Conference Chairs

Welcome to Budapest and WWW2003, the twelfth of the original
conference series organized by the International World Wide Web
Conference Committee (IW3C2).
WWW2003 is particularly special since it is the first of the series
to be held in Central Europe. We are especially excited about
having the event in Budapest since Hungary is proving itself to be
an area of rapid technology growth in a region that has been
"under-served" as a venue for technology events. This growth has
been a part of one of the most dynamically developing economies
among the forthcoming members of the European Union. Likewise,
Budapest has become an outstanding educational, scientific,
economical and cultural center of that part of Europe. We hope that
all of these factors will contribute to a productive, entertaining,
and memorable experience for you at WWW2003.

We believe that the WWW2003 Program Co-Chairs, Yih-Farn Robin
Chen, László Kovács, and Steve Lawrence, along
with an exceptional international Program Committee have assembled
one of the finest technical programs of this conference series.
Despite the numerous issues, political and economic, which
challenge the Web research community today, this committee received
the largest number of paper submissions for the conference series
to date. These submissions were generally of outstanding quality
thereby making the Program Committee’s task extremely
challenging. The diversity of the conference’s Refereed
Papers Track reflects the research areas highlighted in WWW2003 and
the range of interests held by the conference attendees.

We hope that these proceedings will help you to reference the
paper presentations that you are able to attend as well as still
benefit from those you are unable to experience in person. When you
return to your home institutions, we hope that as you refer to
these proceedings that you will have memories of your attendance at
WWW2003 and your visit to Budapest.

Gusztáv HencseyComputer and Automation Research Institute,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Bebo WhiteStanford Linear Accelerator Center

WWW2003 Conference Proceedings

Copyright for individual contributions are held by the authors
or their employers. Copyright for this CD compilation is held by
WWW2003, on behalf of the International World Wide Web Conference
Committee.
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